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I work with a number of pharmacies and some are very on top of keeping track of people who also try getting control substances from multi physician scripts. Then there are some that really don't seem to care.
Have had a few pharmacists work with me in nailing down some patients who have abused the script route.
When a patient calls you and tells you that their 2 yr old just knocked over a full bottle of their Lortabs down into the toilet there is this red flag that comes up. It is always the Lortab that got knocked over never the Coreg.
I would get roughly 2 calls like that pretty much every day. There would be more instances where people were trying to fill early without any story and gave up when we told them "no." I've heard almost everything. "My dog ate it, my baby spilled it in the toilet, I'm going on vacation, I ran over my bottle etc." The most horrifying one was when a patient told me that her baby had eaten 87 of this woman's oxycodone pills. The pharmacist immediately stepped in and adamantly demanded that the woman take her child to the ER immediately. The patient said "nah, she's fine. She has done this before and lived." Needless to say she did not get a replacement for the pills her baby "ate." I've personally dealt with 2 instances where a parent claimed that their infant/todler took a dangerous/lethal dose of their medication and said that their kid didn't need medical attention because they'll be fine. It's an obvious lie, but it also horrifies me and part of my mind believes that an innocent child might die due to a failed drug addicted parent that refuses to seek help for their baby.
Just curious, but do you work in healthcare? I don't want to compromise your privacy so there is no obligation to answer.
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